On with my report of this crazy week. I'm not going to mention the regular chores (grocery shopping, cleaning, etc) but just know that they were somehow all smashed in there along with everything else.
Friday: I mentioned last week that Seth had the day off school. It was also bulk trash pick up day and I had forgotten to have Frank help me carry a mini fridge (that he got from a coworker and that has been sitting out on our deck for 3 or 4 years) that I wanted to throw away out to the curb. But I really wanted to get rid of it, so I decided to see if Seth could help me carry it and between the two of us, we got it out to the curb. Hooray; one less thing cluttering up our space! I was proud of us for managing to get that done. Also on Friday I ran errands to the post office and to the library, got the luncheon for Tanner & Darlee's wedding set up, and finished our Personal Property Tax Return (for the business). However, in the process of doing that I realized that we had replaced an iPad a number of years ago and somehow I'd forgotten to account for that so now I have to file amended returns for 2 previous years. Oh joy. But at least I got the current one filed on time and it is correct, at least. (Assuming I didn't make another mistake that I'm going to discover in a few years...)
Saturday & Sunday: The weekend was all about General Conference. I worked really hard during the week to get things done so that I wouldn't have a lot of other things to do on Saturday. It was nice because all I really had to do was listen to General Conference and quilt. So I was able to really focus on General Conference for two days, and that was wonderful! I did miss portions of a couple of talks while preparing meals but otherwise I heard it all (and quilting helped keep me awake!). As always, it was amazing and uplifting and I'm looking forward to reading and listening to all the talks again. After Conference was over on Sunday, I prepared my Primary lesson for this Sunday and did some indexing. I played some games with Seth and he beat me at Battleship--I think that's the first time he's ever done that. I had to take a photo of the board because look how lucky he was at finding my ships:
(The white pegs between the ships are his "misses". As you can see, he actually had more hits than misses!! You can see that I didn't do too bad either--I was starting to sink his fourth ship when I lost the game.)
Monday: I had some errands to run, some appointments to make, and some work to do for my music calling. I also worked on the quilt a little bit. I got a lot done over the weekend but was still finishing up the quilting on the border pieces. A few weeks ago I was thinking about all the people coming to visit for Jared's wedding and realizing that I would have more space to put people and that I would be less stressed if I could get the house more organized, cleaned and de-cluttered. I mean, I'm always wanting to do that but now I really want to do that. So I decided that I needed to assign a room in the house to work on each week between now and Jared's wedding. This was my first week and my job was Jared's room (since he will be home soon, it makes sense to get his room all cleaned out and ready for him before he gets here). So I worked on Jared's room on Monday too. His room is not too bad (it will be worse when he gets back with all his stuff!) so I pretty much got it done on Monday. A good thing too, since I haven't had time to look at it since! I have a bag of stuff I need to take to the storage unit and there's a box that Frank needs to go through and I threw away another bag of stuff. There are also a couple of pictures that need to be hung on walls. Other than that, it's pretty good. I'm hoping not every week is going to be as busy as this one or else I'm never going to get everything done. (Next week's job is the kitchen, and that is going to be a LOT more work!) That evening we had family night and for activity we played Mario Kart which is not my favorite. Maybe if we keep playing it enough, some day I will be sort of good at it. But I doubt it!
Tuesday: I worked on the quilt first, and I got all the quilting done. Finally!!
I also went to the storage unit to pull out some things for Seth's costume for his school project (thank goodness I made that Legolas costume for Scott all those years ago, because the tunic is going to work well for the Daniel Boone costume). And I mailed some Easter packages to the boys too. That evening I went to a RS Activity. They were doing a "passover dinner" and I had been asked to help in the kitchen. I didn't end up staying long though because I started to not feel very well so I ended up going home before it was over. It was kind of a bummer to miss it because I've always been interested in Jewish holidays and how they are celebrated. But the good news is, I was fine the next day and think I just ate something that wasn't agreeing with me.
Wednesday: I missed my religion class but I went with Jessie's mom to a nursery to buy flowers for Jared & Jessie's wedding (not for the bouquet or anything like that...for some planters that they are going to have at the reception). Her mom has a favorite nursery up in Pennsylvania that she's been going to for years, so that's where we went. It's about an 75 minutes away, and I saw signs for Hancock and thought of Izak! The nursery is run by several Mennonite families (or maybe it was one big extended family) and it is HUGE! I took these photos standing in one place, just turning 3 different directions:
This was just one of several greenhouses there. I wish I could have got some pictures of the Mennonite workers. They dress like they are from a century (or two) ago and I loved asking them for help because when they answered, they had the coolest "Pennsylvania Dutch" accents! (They were also very helpful and nice.) We got a ton of flowers and they barely fit in the car. I enjoyed the trip and Jessie's mom is great to talk to, but that took a good portion of the day and I was pretty exhausted by the time I got back to Frederick. I didn't go straight home, though, because I needed to stop at the fabric store to see if they had suede "fringe" (for Seth's Daniel Boone costume) and I also wanted to get fabric for the back and borders of Tanner & Darlee's quilt so I can get started on that as soon as I finish Jared & Jessie's quilt. They did have the fringe, thank goodness, and I found some fabric that will work for the quilt (I hope). By the time I got home, it was almost time to pick up Seth from school. I got the Walmart shopping done later, while Seth was at YM (Frank helped me).
Thursday: Snickers had to get his teeth cleaned, so Frank dropped him off at the vet on his way to work. I worked with my lady from the Arc for the first time in weeks and ended up working from 10:30 to nearly 2:30, so that took up most of my day. When I got off work I picked Snickers up from the vet (and paid them a small fortune) and then made it home with just enough time to eat a late lunch (at 3:00!) before I had to pick up Seth from school. After doing brain balance with Seth, I mowed the lawn and did some weeding and then we had a late dinner. I ran out of time to really work on the quilt, but I did take out all the pins and the basting and I trimmed the batting and the backing fabric down to be even with the edges of the quilt top. I still need to sew the bias strips for the binding and then sew the binding on. Snickers doesn't usually eat on the day that he gets his teeth cleaned, but last night he actually did have an appetite and he ate his dinner. He has been coughing a lot, though--both last evening, during the night last night, and today. The vet says his throat is irritated from the breathing tube they put down his throat while he was under anesthesia. I hope he feels better soon--not only do I feel sorry for him, but his coughing woke me up a couple of times last night.
Friday: Today I spent the morning working on the budget and then I spent the afternoon helping one of my "ministerees". She has a 4 month old baby who still isn't sleeping well and her usual helpers (her mom and her sister) were both out of town so she asked if I could come help her for a few hours today. I mostly just played with and held her adorable baby while she ate some lunch and got some chores done. I think she enjoyed having another adult to talk to for a while too! Then I picked Seth up from school and took him to the library where we got some movies and games and we even got one book! (He actually reads a lot.) I didn't have lunch until after we got back from there, so once again--I had lunch at 3:00. This is not a trend I would like to continue. I have several things I would like to get done before the day is over, but right now it is dinner time so I will have to do that first and hope I manage to get everything else done afterwards.
Maybe that doesn't sound all that busy, but I was squeezing in all the regular chores whenever I could, along with brain balance with Seth and exercising as regularly as possible. (I did exercise every day, although 2 days I got up late enough that I only had time to exercise 10 minutes instead of 30. But hey--10 minutes is better than nothing, right?) I also squeezed in some reading and some wedding stuff here and there. There was never a dull moment!
There were two mornings this week that Seth got up on time and moved quickly through getting ready for school and that was lovely! The other 3 mornings (including today) he didn't do too well and he was even a few minutes late for school today. We'll keep working on it. He did demonstrate that he is capable of focusing and getting ready quickly, I just wish he would decide to do that every day.
Frank is keeping really busy with work and with some of his clients too. He does seem to be enjoying his job a lot, which is great.
I feel like I'm forgetting something, but that's all I can pull out of my tired brain right now. We have had a few more nice days here and there (although today is cooler and raining) so everything is blooming and it is really quite lovely when the sun is shining:
I see this tree outside my back window.
And this one in front.
And just for fun, to finish up, Seth thought these cheese balls I put on a paper towel for him to eat looked like the United States of America (sorry it's sideways):
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